"THE SUPERINTENDENT IN DIRFICULTIES."

Wellington Independent, Volume XV, Issue 1396, 10 January 1860, Page 3

"THE SUPERINTENDENT IN DIRFICULTIES."

Although humour, and especially goodhuuiour, would 'be v ' about the last thing for which we should search the columns of the Spectator, yet it published an article on Saturday, under the title given above, which we might quote at length as an addenda to Colman's " broad grins." Because certain accounts have been postponed, therefore the writer asserts that there is "no money in the till," and so ; jumps to the conclusion — certainly a ' tolerably easy one if the premises be granted — that nothing is being paid, and that Treasurer and Auditors are wholly useless. In respect to the latter officers also a peculiar kind, r of arithmetic is re- ' sorted to, by which in some mysterious way, the modest salary, of £200- divisible between two gentlemen,' is magnified into £2,400 per annum! We venture to hint .that the public must look sharp that the Treasurer does not get a leaf out of this writer's new edition of Cocker, for as the Auditors have never received more than £200, if the Treasurer could manage to get credit for £2400 on their account, a tolerable profit would remain, and that might enable him to pay the Spectator scribe liberally for his i valuable aid. But the bon_ hommie of the article is its most refreshing part. The writer is afraid that Superintendent Featherston .should get into some trouble that Superintendent Williamson (of Auckland) seems to have fallen into, and to preypnt^lys a.ctually takes the trouble to reprint-a clause from so recondite a volume as the " Statutes of New Zealand," cap. 60, to remind him that he can sue and be sued! Most wonderful discovery ! This pains-taking writer makes it known that if Superintendents do not pay" their debts, they

are a& amenable to the law as meaner men, and hence ought to live under a wholesome terror of the District Courts, as unfortunately applications to the Supreme Court have been rather costly than successful. " What a pity that some one was not at hand to remind this "one of. the advice gratis sort," as Mr. "Vyeller observes, that advice such as his is "generally (and justly) regarded a's being exactly of the same value as tho price that is charged for it,:— that is nothing. ''„